More on Amazon's EPIC fail
More on Amazon's epic fail. It's all over the news outlets and blogsphere, and I'm still sitting here stunned at Amazon's stupidity.
I found that graphic over on ontd_political. Please feel free to take and repost.
First, a few links describing what happened. Amazon decided within the last few days (still trying to find out exactly when) to remove all LGBT and erotica from its rankings. Thus far I haven't found an exhaustive list of what they've removed, and I suspect there won't be one, because it's apparently still evolving as Amazon pulls more books.
Jezebel.com's post.
The post from ontd_political.
The Los Angeles Times piece.
Dear Author's article.
A very informative post over on meta_writer.
Craig Seymour's been reporting on Amazon's homophobia for a while.
Here's the message that Amazon sent to someone querying about what happened:
In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.
Hence, if you have further questions, kindly write back to us.
Best regards,
Ashlyn D
Member Services
Amazon.com Advantage
Lest you think that this doesn't matter to you or that it'll only affect a small portion of literature, THEY REMOVED JAMES BALDWIN AND JEANETTE WINTERSON's books from their rankings. James Baldwin. Sit and contemplate that for a few moments and realize how atrociously bigoted that is. You want history books about the role of LGBT people in history? Biographies? Young adult books that may mention LGBT people or have them as characters? Well, you're shit out of luck, people. Self-help books? College guides for LGBT people looking for LGBT-friendly colleges? Books for straight people wanting to support LGBT friends or family as they come out? Parenting books? Nope. You're SOL.
The fact is that this move by Amazon can negatively impact the sales of any author that is on their hit list. Do you really want Amazon to lessen the possibility that someone who hasn't read James Baldwin might stumble across his work on Amazon, order his books, and proceed to read one of the most exquisite writing talents in all of American history? If so, get off my flist and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
If you go to Amazon right now and search "homosexuality," the top books you find are all about preventing, "healing," and attacking homosexuality. Here's what I found when I did the search at 7:50 AM PDT:
That means if you go on Amazon and search for books that are listed under the key word of "homosexuality," you won't find the plethora of books that are written by LGBT authors unless you already know their names. Think of what that means for someone just coming to terms with their gayness and/or anyone wanting to find new books by GLBT authors.
This is taken directly from the list that vashtan's posted on meta_writer. It compiles thus far a list of books that have been found to have been removed from Amazon's rankings. All credit goes to the people who compiled this list:
MASSIVE LIST OF BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN PURGED FROM AMAZON'S SALES RANKINGS AND CENSORED
Collection: Books that had their sales ranks removed:
FICTION
Out of a Top 100 Gay Novels List on Elisa Rolle's LJ almost all the books are "purged", including authors such as Jamie O'Neill, Edmund White, Andre Aciman.
Link: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/593110.html
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain
Stripped of sales rank on amazon.com, but not on amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/BROKEBACK-MOUNTAIN-ANNIE-PROULX/dp/2246699215ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562478&sr=1-3
Jeanette Winterson's OrangesAre Not The Only Fruit
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
None of which can be called "erotica" by any stretch of the imagination.
(the only "sex scene" in The Well of Loneliness consists in its entirety of the words "And that night they were not divided.")
Alex Beecroft: False Colours, m/m historical romance, just broken through and ranking in top 10 historical novels-- i.e. non-romance, non-gay-- and then it suddenly disappeared entirely from the rankings. The novel is NOT erotica, contains only one non-explicit sex scene, but the central premise features two male characters falling in love.
http://www.amazon.com/False-Colors-M-Romance/dp/0762436581
The Kindle version of False Colors has a sales rank but has had the 'an m/m romance' taken off its name!
http://www.amazon.com/False-Colors-ebook/dp/B0026A6C3Q
Censored on Amazon.com
Alex Beecroft, Captain's Surrender
heat level mild; about one page of sex scenes all told in a book 196 pages long
http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Surrender-Alex-Beecroft/dp/1602020892
Censored on Amazon.com
The Kindle version of Captain's Surrender has no sales rank either. http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Surrender/dp/B00140IURU
Erastes Transgressions - similar case to False Colours, screen cap here: http://erastes.livejournal.com/371921.html
Erastes Standish
Erastes Speak Its Name
Erastes Frost Fair
(on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk)
Storm Grant - Gym Dandy
Level of explicitness/genre: a RomCom with a heat level of 2 out of 5.
GLTB content?: boy meets boy
Censored on which amazon website: .com, .uk, and .ca*
Proof of sales rank: http://pics.livejournal.com/storm_grant/pic/0002ydd8/
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537
http://www.amazon.de/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537
Sales rank removed
Rita Mae Brown Rubyfruit Jungle
http://www.amazon.com/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/055327886X
http://www.amazon.de/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/055327886X
Sales rank removed
Sarah Waters Tipping The Velvet now has no sales rank in one of its editions ...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Virago-Sarah-Waters/dp/1860495249
http://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=pd_sim_b_2
http://www.amazon.de/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=
pd_sim_b_2
It still does in another edition:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Sarah-Waters/dp/1844080110
The only difference seems to be that this one doesn't have the word "lesbian" anywhere in its "Look for similar items by subject".
E M Forster - Maurice
http://www.amazon.com/Maurice-Novel-E-M-Forster/dp/0393310329/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550630&sr=1-1
(Amazon.com - "Heat level" - neglegible)
(Sales rank removed)
Charlie Cochrane: Lessons in Love
http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Love-Charlie-Cochrane/dp/1602021481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239547504&sr=1-1
(no sex in the book)
(Sales rank removed)
Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man
http://www.amazon.com/Single-Man-Christopher-Isherwood/dp/0816638624/
Gay protagonist. I don't recall any explicit sex.
(Sales rank removed)
Edmund White's The Beautiful Room Is Empty
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Room-Empty-Novel/dp/0679755403/
Haven't read, however, it's certainly critically acclaimed (as is A Single Man)
(Sales rank removed)
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story
Both of the Edmund White novels do contain explicit sex scenes, but they're far from not "erotica", and they're acclaimed as literary classics.
(Sales rank removed)
Andrew Holleran's Dancer From The Dance
http://www.amazon.com/Dancer-Dance-Novel-Andrew-Holleran/dp/0060937068/
Gay protagonist. Non-explicit, though much is implied. Harold Robbins is steamier and retains his sales rank.
(Sales rank removed)
JL Langley's Tin Star (Amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
James Buchanan: The Good Thief, Twice the Cowboy, Twice the Ride, Cheating Chance
(Only his print editions have had their sales rank stripped) Amazon.com
Screencap for Good Thief here: http://www.james-buchanan.com/GT.pdf
More proof: http://www.james-buchanan.com/amazonfail.pdf
R W Day A Strong and Sudden Thaw Iris Press edition - has a ranking, Kindle version of the Lethe edition has a ranking. The print version of the Lethe edition does not (http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Sudden-Thaw-R-Day/dp/1590210638/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239551741&sr=1-1)
When you search by title from the Amazon home page, the Lethe print edition doesn't even make the first page of results. In fact, the first hit is a book by another author with the same name as me, and the second is Ginn Hale's Wicked Gentlemen, which still has a ranking, btw.
Anne Brooke - Maloney's Law
- Gay crime fiction - 2 sex scenes, one brief.
- GLTB content - Yes
- Censored on which amazon website - amazon.us and amazon.uk
Amazon UK link - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maloneys-Law-Anne-Brooke/dp/1933720484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216456533&sr=8-1
Amazon US link - http://www.amazon.com/Maloneys-Law-Anne-Brooke/dp/1933720484/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215868106&sr=8-1
Both have had their ranking stripped. It's also very hard now to search directly for the book as you can't do just any combination of author/title into the search field. It has to be title OR author and not both. That's a change from last week ...
Krandall Kraus Love's Last Chance
Cannot be searched by on Amazon directly by title http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1239552371/ref=sr_gnr_aps?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=loves%20last%20chance
Could be googled and got this link
http://www.amazon.com/Loves-Last-Chance-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1555835058>the amazon listing.
You cannot even search for things by title.
Jane Davitt Wild Raspberries (m/m romance)
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Raspberries-Jane-Davitt/dp/1603703209/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239553045&sr=1-3
No sales ranks anymore (same author, Drawing Closer does
LJ post about sales rank: http://janedavitt.livejournal.com1065639.html
Shayla Kersten The Cost of Eternity
Erotic romance (Ellora's Cave), GLTB content
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Cost-Eternity-Shayla-Kersten/dp/1419956655/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0198097-5214063?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188657417&sr=1-1
Various authors Seduction (Black Lace anthology)
Women's erotica (some same sex encounters but mostly het)
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Various-Authors/dp/0352345101/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217641842&sr=1-3
Jackson, Chase, Kersten Masters of Desire
Eerotic romance (Kensington Aphrodisia)
No GLTB content
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Desire-Layla-Chase/dp/0758225490/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217641768&sr=1-6
According to the authors on the Kensington Aphrodisia group, all of the Aphro stories have had ranking removed. Aphro novels are erotic romance and some have GLBT content.
Mary Renault The Charioteer
http://www.amazon.com/Charioteer-Mary-Renault/dp/0375714189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554137&sr=1-1
Tamara Allen Whistling in the Dark
"Sweet romance" - all the sex is behind closed doors, apart from a kiss or two and some cuddling. It features two men falling in love.
Censored on all amazon websites
http://www.amazon.com/Whistling-Dark-Tamara-Allen/dp/1590210492/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229019320&sr=8-1
The Kindle version has never had a sales rank, as far as the author knows. The print version lost its sales rank on Friday morning.
George Bennett Fain Pandora's Box
http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Box-George-Bennett-Fain/dp/0615141358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554619&sr=1-1
No sales rank. Description contains the phrase "homosexual tones".
Whereas hir other book, This Darkest Hour, still has a sales rank, even though it's full of smut. Description contains the phrase "sexy gay novella". But it's out of print, so that might have anything to do with it.
Lee Rowan, all books in the print editions, Kindle versions seem to be there, but the Kindle editions are not in author's profile (affects Ransom, Winds of Change, Eye of the Storm, Sail Away, Walking Wounded, Speak Its Name).
They are all m/m romance, heat level 3-3.5 on a scale of 5
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A14XRHD2PWFW4D/ref=sv_ys_4
It also affects self-published authors:
Marquesate Her Majesty's Men
Explicit, military gay erotica, m/m
Censored on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Majestys-Men-Marquesate/dp/0955988004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239557697&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Her-Majestys-Men-Marquesate/dp/0955988004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239557739&sr=1-1
It has become impossible to find the book when searching generally. Search box now has to be set on "books"
Jenna Jones, Chiaroscuro, and Something Beautiful
m/m romance
http://www.amazon.com/Chiaroscuro-Jenna-Jones/dp/1603704132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556726&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Something-Beautiful-Jenna-Jones/dp/1603704116 /ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_img_in
Had ranks stripped
Angela Fiddler - Pulse
Explicit m/m GLBT content, Kindle version still online
Isabel Miller Patience and Sarah
Historical novel. Erotic content limited to the words "Where's my wet? Where's my melt?"
Fae Sutherland & Marguerite Labbe, Mr. Right Now
Explicit GLBT
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Right-Now-Rhianne-Aile/dp/0981508421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558793&sr=1-1
Fae Sutherland & Marguerite Labbe Bee Among The Clover
Explicit GLBT
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Bee-Among-Clover-Fae-Sutherland/dp/1607670356/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558793&sr=1-2
Julia Serano Whipping Girl
Non-fiction - about trans women and femininity. Not very explicit at all. Some description (for example, frank talk of anatomy), but overall, pretty tame.
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Whipping-Girl-Transsexual-Scapegoating-Femininity/dp/1580051545/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559105&sr=1-1
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, first trilogy has sales ranks (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar) but not the second trilogy (Kushiel's Scion, Kushiel's Justice, Kushiel's Mercy), mass-market paperback editions.
Mild side of explicit, definitely BDSM, maybe occasional GLBT pairings but mostly het.
Censored on Amazon.com
Links (first three just for reference):
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Dart-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0765342987/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Chosen-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0765345048/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Avatar-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0765347539/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-4
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Scion-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044661002X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-6
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Justice-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0446610143/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Mercy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044661016X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-2
Gerri Hill, The Rainbow Cedar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-Cedar-Gerri-Hill/dp/1594931240/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559303&sr=1-12
Georgia Beers, Too Close to Touch
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Close-Touch-Georgia-Beers/dp/1933110473/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559303&sr=1-11
E. Lynn Harris, "I Say A Little Prayer"
Romance, on par with any other romance novel (Nora Roberts, etc.) Gay and straight relationships
http://www.amazon.com/I-Say-Little-Prayer-Novel/dp/0385512724/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4 -- hardcover, no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Say-Little-Prayer-Lynn-Harris/dp/1400077281/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_12 -- paperback, no ranking
Kindle Edition still ranked.
E. Lynn Harris, "Not A Day Goes By"
Romance, on par with any other romance novel (Nora Roberts, etc.) Gay and straight relationships
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Day-Goes-Lynn-Harris/dp/1400075785/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_10 -- paperback, no ranking
Hardcover, Kindle, and Large print still ranked
E. Lynn Harris, "Not A Day Goes By"
Romance, on par with any other romance novel (Nora Roberts, etc.) Gay and straight relationships
http://www.amazon.com/Any-Way-Wind-Blows-Novel/dp/0385721188/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_9 -- paperback, no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Any-Wind-Blows-Lynn-Harris/dp/0385495056/ref=ed_oe_h -- hardcover, no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Any-Wind-Blows-Lynn-Harris/dp/078625792X/ref=ed_oe_h -- large print, no ranking (but also out of print) Kindle edition still has a ranking.
This is particularly awful because E. Lynn Harris is an author with a special Amazon "store".
Quentin Crisp - most works seems to have befallen the same fate:
http://www.amazon.com/Stately-Homo-Celebration-Quentin-Crisp/dp/0593046773/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559828&sr=1-4
Censored on Amazon.com
Patricia Nell Warren, The Front Runner
Gay romance granddaddy of them all, published in 1974
Its sales ranks are stripped by Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Front-Runner-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109964/
Various, I Do: an anthology in support of marriage equality
Varying heat levels, some erotica. A charity anthology in support of the Lambda Legal Fund.
http://www.amazon.com/I-DO-Kris-Jacen/dp/1934531707
Perihan Magden, Two Girls
Not explicit at all - a tragic story about two teenage girls falling in love, although I don't recall the word 'lesbian' ever even being mentioned outright.
Censored at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de (the English edition; the German edition still has its sales rank)
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Girls-Perihan-Magden/dp/1852428996/
Marion Zimmer Bradly, The Catch Trap
A bare handful of not very explicit sex scenes in over almost 700 pages. What might be more of a problem is that one of the protagonists is rather young when the relationship starts. - gay relationhsip, gay rights issues.
Censored at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk. On amazon.de the sales rank has been removed for the English edition in http://www.amazon.de/Catch-Trap-Marion-Zimmer-Bradley/dp/0345315642 one instance, and left for two other editions, as well as the German one.) - http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Trap-Marion-Zimmer-Bradley/dp/0345315642
A.J. Mirag, Clippings
Explicit GLBT
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Clippings-J-Mirag/dp/0557013011/
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt
Classic lesbian novel
http://www.amazon.com/Price-Salt-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393325997/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239563211&sr=1-1
Chris Bridges, Giggling Into the Pillow
Collection of funny erotica, all or mostly het, very explicit
US Amazon deranked it
http://www.amazon.com/Giggling-Into-Pillow-Chris-Bridges/dp/0595254306/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239563093&sr=1-1
Interestingly, the hardcover edition is still ranked:
http://www.amazon.com/Giggling-Into-Pillow-Chris-Bridges/dp/0595651704/ref=ed_oe_h
Kiernan Kelly, Riding Heartbreak Road
http://www.amazon.com/Riding-Heartbreak-Road-Kiernan-Kelly/dp/1934166251
Kiernan Kelly, In Bear Country
http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Country-Kiernan-Kelly/dp/1603700072/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239549662&sr=1-2
Kiernan Kelly, Seti's Heart
http://www.amazon.com/Setis-Heart-Kiernan-Kelly/dp/1603702598/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239549876&sr=1-1
Kiernan Kelly, In Bear Country II: The Barbary Coast
http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Country-II-Barbary-Coast/dp/1603704027/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550489&sr=1-1
Kiernan Kelly, In Their Own Skins: Shifting Sands
http://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Sands-Their-Own-Skin/dp/1603705783/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550657&sr=1-1
All deranked by amazon.com
Ann Rice, Sleeping Beauty series
The Story of O
Best Lesbian Erotica books series
Jay Lygon, Chaos Magic, Love Runes
GLBT erotica
Third book in the trilogy, Personal Demons, still has a ranking.
Michael Thomas Ford's books
Steve Berman, Vintage (YA novel)
Berman (a YA novel)
Catherine Lundoff (ed), Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades
(lesbian ghost stories)
ALL of the books from the GLBT publisher Torquere Press have been deranked!
Some examples:
http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Sean-Michael/dp/1603705872/ref=pd_sim_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/Velvet-Glove-IV-Sean-Michael/dp/1603705473/ref=pd_sim_b_3
http://www.amazon.com/5-OClock-Bar-Chris-Owen/dp/160370549X/ref=pd_sim_b_5
Eden Bradley
Contemporary erotica and erotic romance (No GLBT content)
Censored on amazon US, UK (can't even get search results under my name), Canada, Germany
TITLES: The Dark Garden The Darker Side of Pleasure Exotica: Seven Days of Kama Sutra, Nine Days of Arabian Nights Hot Nights, Dark Desires (erotic romance anthology) Exclusive (erotic romance anthology) Surrender: Tales of Submission (erotica anthology) Forbidden Fruit Naughty Bits (erotica anthology) A 21st Century Courtesan Beyond Desire (erotica anthology)
Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies
censored at amazon.com
Lauren Dane, Taking Care of Business:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0352345020/ref=cm_pdp_arms_dp_6
Deranked at Amazon.com)
Patti O'Shea, In Twilight's Shadow
Paranormal Romance/one consummated love scene at the end of the book, no GLTB content
Censored on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Twilights-Shadow-Patti-OShea/dp/0765355809
Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love
Story about two high school boys who fall in love and then drift apart during college. No adult content.
http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Like-Being-Love-Novel/dp/0060595833/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239565997&sr=1-2
Dan Savage
http://www.amazon.com/Commitment-Love-Sex-Marriage-Family/dp/0452287634
http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Love-Straight-Americas-Columnist/dp/0452278155
Pregnant Boyfriend: Censored on Amazon.com/ca/co.uk
Cassidy Ryan, Sleeping with the Past
Censored on Amazon.com and .co.uk
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Past-Cassidy-Ryan/dp/1603704213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239567827&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleeping-Past-Cassidy-Ryan/dp/1603704213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239567973&sr=1-1
A search for Richard Stevenson, author of the Don Strachey mysteries, gives you only the Kindle versions of his books and one of the movies: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=richard+stevenson&x=0&y=0
Alexander Chee, EDINBURGH
(sales rankign removed; interestingly, it still shows up in "all departments" search results).
Justin Chin, BURDEN OF ASHES
(sales ranking removed, but does not show up in "all department" searches).
Justin Chin, HARMLESS MEDICINE
Katherine V Forrest, Curious Wine
(arguably one of the most famous lesbian novels):
http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Wine-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1555836615/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568187&sr=1-6
Katherine V Forrest, Daughters of a Coral Dawn
(and also its two sequels):
http://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Coral-Dawn-Katherine-Forrest/dp/1555836623/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568187&sr=1-7
Rank removed on amazon.co.uk and amazon.de
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curious-Wine-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1872642020/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568444&sr=8-6
Katherine V Forrest, All in the Seasoning
http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Seasoning-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1932859268/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568538&sr=1-2
(Ranking removed)
Liberty Square: A Kate Delafield mystery (and other Kate Delafield books--these are mystery novels and I believe them to contain little, if any, romantic/erotic content other than the fact that the main character is a lesbian):
http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Square-Kate-Delafield-Mystery/dp/0425176754/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568187&sr=1-8
Clare London: "The Gold Warrior" "Twisted Brand" "Sparks Fly"
Gay romance AND/OR gay erotica. They all contain explicit m/m sex scenes, but of course there's no way of identifying that for certain from the blurb.
All have lost their sales rankings in BOTH dot COM and CO UK.
- Author/title: Taboo Treats, Liz Andrews editor - Level of explicitness/genre VERY explicit BDSM Halloween erotica - GLTB content? Yes, at least 2 of the 6 stories - Censored on which amazon website Amazon US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Taboo Treats does not show in an All Departments search
- Author/title Flipped Fables, S A Clements editor - Level of explicitness/genre Explicit m/m anthology - GLTB content? yes, m/m - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Flipped Fables
- Author/title Angelia Sparrow, "Pushing the Boundaries of Reality" Kindle edition - Level of explicitness/genre erotic cyberpunk - GLTB content? no - Censored on which amazon website US, does show up in Kindle Store searches - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Pushing the Boundaries of Reality
- Author/title Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks, "Color of Magic/Color of Money" (kindle) - Level of explicitness/genre fantasy erotica - GLTB content? yes, m/m - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Color of Magic/Color of Money shows up in the Kindle store but not in All Departments
- Author/title Toybox: Sounds, edited M.Rode (kindle) - Level of explicitness/genre erotica - GLTB content? yes, m/m - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Sounds shows in a Books and Kindle search, but not a general one. Toyboxes for Oil, Rope and Collars are also missing on the general
- Author/title Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks, "Collared Hearts" - Level of explicitness/genre BDSM erotica - GLTB content? yes - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Collared Hearts has problems with its listing and is not showing up on All Department searches, although it shows on Kindle Store and Books
John Cleland
sexually explicit, mostly het sex. usually classified as classic, at least one lesbian encounter
Censored on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Hill-Pleasure-Wordsworth-Wadsworth/dp/1840224177/ref=pd_cp_b_1?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1604596163&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1CKX37PZ9T7XQ5YP7PEX
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanny-Hill-Pleasure-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/1840224177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566020&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.ca/Penguin-Classics-Fanny-Memoirs-Pleasure/dp/0140432493/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566030&sr=1-1"
LAWRENCE SCHIMEL reports that all of his books have been stripped of their sales rankings. Author MICHAEL D. SNEDIKER reports the same.
Emma Holly, Fairyville
It's got straight and gay erotic romance, plus m/m/f menage
http://www.amazon.com/Fairyville-Berkley-Sensation-Emma-Holly/dp/0425224767/
There's a budget version of it that still shows up in searches, but not the 'real' version.
Laura Baumbach: A Bit of Rough, Out There in the Night, Details of the Hunt, Hostage, Blood Desires, Scared Stiff, Blood Claim, MEXICAN HEAT, The Lost Temple of Karttikeya, The Ties That Bind, Roughhousing, A Bite Before Christmas
Steamy, GLBT, Censored on amazon.com
All MLR Press books are de-ranked, too.
YOUNG ADULT
Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys (YA)
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Boys-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689857705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550221&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-Boys-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689857705/ref=pd_si
m_b_2
(Sales rank removed)
Alex Sanchez, Rainbow Road (YA)
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Road-Alex-Sanchez/dp/141691191X/ref=pd_sim_b_1_img
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-Road-Alex-Sanchez/dp/141691191X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556298&sr=1-1
(Sales rank removed)
Rainbow High (YA)
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-High-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689854781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550483&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-High-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689854781/ref=pd_sim_b_1
(Sales rank removed)
(None of Alex Sanchez's other books have lost their rankings though they all contain m/m content)
Mark Probst The Filly
http://www.amazon.ca/Filly-Mark-R-Probst/dp/0979777305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 &s=books&qid=1239547211&sr=8-1 (amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
None of the [YA] f/f books I checked had their rankings removed - this includes books by Julie Peters, Ellen Wittlinger and Nancy Garden, among others. Neither have David Levithan's or Brett Hartinger's or any of the other m/m novels I checked. Most of the novels I checked are mainstream teen fiction, that were well reviewed in library journals, as that is what I'm most familiar with.
Marion Dane Bauer Am I Blue
http://www.amazon.com/Am-I-Blue-Coming-Silence/dp/0064405877/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556580&sr=1-1>
Anthology by YA authors about 'growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends', has an age recommendation of 9-12 and has no ranking.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s249/riversbend/amiblue.jpg
NON-FICTION
The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students
http://www.amazon.com/Advocate-College-Guide-LGBT-Students/dp/155583857X/
No protagonist, but intended for LGBT college-bound students. Haven't read, but I expect is non-explicit.
(Sales rank removed)
Robert Adrich Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History (amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
Dr. Nathaniel Frank Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America has also been pulled from the rankings. A book on military policy - not exactly racy stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/Unfriendly-Fire-Undermines-Military-Weakens/dp/0312373481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554070&sr=1-1
Louis-Georges Tin (Editor), Marek Redburn (Translator): The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience (Paperback)
(Amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
Different Loving (D/s), Threesomes (swinging), and Anapol's Polyamory are all lacking a rank. The third book is about as bland as bland can get, although the first is admittedly "spicy" (or, at least, frank).
However, lasciviously titled books like Become a Total Man Magnet: Make Every Man Fall in Love with You Instantly - Make Him Chase You Down Desperately and Beg for Attention and The Manual: A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date, and Mate--and What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top have rankings.
BDSM nonfiction
SM 101 has no ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/101-Realistic-Introduction-Jay-Wiseman/dp/0963976389/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556468&sr=1-1
The New Bottoming Book - no ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Bottoming-Book-Janet-Hardy/dp/1890159352/ref=pd_cp_b_3?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=096397638 9&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0BD587CY97NNHM9DFDQP
The Loving Dominant - no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Dominant-John-Warren/dp/1890159727/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Three in Love (historic examples of menage a trois, not a how-to) - no ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Love-Menages-Ancient-Modern/dp/0595008070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556612&sr=1-1
Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors
Non-fiction. No erotic content.
Leslie Feinberg Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Non-fiction. No erotic content unless you find impassioned arguments for socialised medicine arousing.
Kate Bornstein My Gender Workbook
Non-fiction. Definitely not erotica, but does mention sometimes that there is such a thing as sex.
The Dictionary of Homophobia
http://www.amazon.co.uk/DICTIONARY-HOMOPHOBIA-History-Lesbian-Experience/dp/1551522292/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556548&sr=1-2
Challenging Homophobia: Teaching About Sexual Diversity
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Challenging-Homophobia-Teaching-Sexual-Diversity/dp/1858564131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556548&sr=1-1
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Who-Lesbian-History-Mid-Twentieth/dp/0415159830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558561&sr=1-1
Strangers: Homosexuality in the Nineteenth Century
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strangers-Homosexuality-Nineteenth-Graham-Robb/dp/0330482246/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Sex, Love and Homophobia: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Love-Homophobia-Bisexual-Transgender/dp/1873328575/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558893&sr=1-4
Rictor Norton, Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830
Prof. B.R. Burg, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Prof. B.R. Burg, Boys at Sea: Sodomy, Indecency, and Courts Martial in Nelson's Navy
Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity
Vito Russo, Celluloid Closet
http://www.amazon.com/Celluloid-Closet-Homosexuality-Movies/dp/0060961325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239560084&sr=1-1
The DVD still comes up fine, incidentally.
Randy Shilts / The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk Biography
http://www.amazon.com/Mayor-Castro-Street-Times-Harvey/dp/0312560850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239560212&sr=1-1 -- paperback, no ranking
Randy Shilts / Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
http://www.amazon.com/Conduct-Unbecoming-Gays-Lesbians-Military/dp/0312342640/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239560212&sr=1-4 -- paperback, no ranking
Randy Shilts is also the author of "And The Band Played On" -- still does have its sales ranking.
Travel guides e.g.:
http://www.amazon.com/Damron-Womens-Traveller/dp/0929435672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559742&sr=1-1
Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, Kate Bornstein, Pomosexuals: challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality
http://www.amazon.com/PoMoSexuals-Challenging-Assumptions-Gender-Sexuality/dp/1573440744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562607&sr=1-1
Sales Rank Stripped by Amazon.com
William N. Eskridge Jr., Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
important nonfiction book about American law and gay rights, no adult content anywhere
http://www.amazon.com/Gaylaw-Challenging-William-Eskridge-Jr/dp/0674008049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562681&sr=1-1
Paul Ruditis, Queer as Folks
(Behind the scenes book on QaF US)
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-as-Folk-Paul-Ruditis/dp/0743476360/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239565633&sr=1-1
Cache at google, from April 4th:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:osiXoaWLy3cJ:www.amazon.com/Queer-as-Folk-Paul-Ruditis/dp/0743476360queer+as+folk+the+book&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Bruce Bagemhil, Biological Exuberance
(seminal text on sexuality in animals)
http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Exuberance-Homosexuality-Diversity-Stonewall/dp/031225377X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568033&sr=1-1
Psy.D. Paul Joannides, The Guide to Getting It On, 6th Edition
Self-Help, Guide book, textbook GLTB mentioned positively, mainly heterofocused
censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Getting-Psy-D-Paul-Joannides/dp/1885535333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239565932&sr=1-1
Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Hedgwick
http://www.amazon.com/Epistemology-Closet-Eve-Kosofsky-Sedgwick/dp/0520254066/
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures) by Judith Halberstam
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Time-Place-Transgender-Subcultural/dp/0814735851/
Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Theory-Introduction-Annamarie-Jagose/dp/0814742343/
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life by Michael Warner
http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Normal-Politics-Ethics-Queer/dp/0674004418/
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q) by Lee Edelman
http://www.amazon.com/No-Future-Queer-Theory-Death/dp/0822333694/
Gay TV and Straight America by Ron Becker
http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Straight-America-Ron-Becker/dp/0813536898/
The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV by Stephen Tropiano
http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Time-Closet-History-Lesbians/dp/1557835578/
Up From Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America by Larry Gross (yeah, ironic, I know)
http://www.amazon.com/Up-Invisibility-Lesbians-Media-America/dp/0231119534/
Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television, 1930s to the Present by Steven Capsuto
http://www.amazon.com/Alternate-Channels-Uncensored-Lesbian-Television/dp/0345412435/
All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America by Suzanna Danuta Walters
http://www.amazon.com/All-Rage-Story-Visibility-America/dp/0226872327/
Queer Cinema, the Film Reader by Harry Benshoff
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Cinema-Reader-Focus-Routledge-Readers/dp/0415319870/
True Selves - written for therapists/social workers
http://www.amazon.com/True-Selves-Understanding-Transsexualism-Professionals/dp/0787967025/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Transgender History.. is a history book
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-History-Studies-Susan-Stryker/dp/158005224X/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Nobody Passes - an anthology about passing, including racial/gender/class passing...
http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Passes-Rejecting-Gender-Conformity/dp/1580051847/ref=pd_sim_b_7
Becoming a Visible Man - memoir by activist Jamison Green:
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Visible-Man-Jamison-Green/dp/082651457X/ref=pd_sim_b_8
The Transgender Studies Reader: transgender theory:
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Reader-Susan-Stryker/dp/041594709X/ref=pd_sim_b_9
Transgender Rights - social justice, dicrimination issues, legislation.
So not erotic:
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Rights-Paisley-Currah/dp/0816643121/ref=pd_sim_b_11
Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America WesleyanUPr) by Cantor, Cantor, et al, has been deranked
BIOGRAPHIES
John Barrowman Anything Goes, Biography
Paperback Edition has a ranking ttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Goes-Autobiography-John-Barrowman/dp/1843173336/ref=pd_sim_m_h__3
But the hardcover edition doesn't:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Goes-John-Barrowman-Carole/dp/1843172895/ref=ed_oe_h
They also seem to have stripped the title search result with another book co-written by Krandal Krauss, It's Never About What It's About. This book is a memoir on coping with life and death in the wake of the AIDS virus. It is a reflection on spirituality, *not* an adult work.
Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaw
Autobiography. Not erotica at all.
V. G. Lee, Diary of a Provincial Lesbian
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-Provincial-Lesbian-V-G-Lee/dp/0906500869/ref=sr_1_59?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559689&sr=1-59
Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell, eds., GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
Non-fiction, personal biographies and essays,
I don't recall much sexual content.
http://www.amazon.com/GenderQueer-Voices-Beyond-Sexual-Binary/dp/1555837301/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561631&sr=1-1"
Mattilda a.k.a. Matthew Bernstein Sycamore (ed.), Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
Non-fiction, personal biographies and essays. Don't remember much sexual content.
http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Passes-Rejecting-Gender-Conformity/dp/1580051847/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561631&sr=1-2"
Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz, What Becomes You
Non-fiction, autobiography. Little sexual content.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Becomes-You-American-Lives/dp0803216424ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561812&sr=1-1
Jamison Green, Becoming a Visible Man
Classic FTM memoir
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Visible-Man-Jamison-Green/dp/082651457X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561497&sr=1-1
Not only has no sales rank, but an exact title search and a search for the author, Jamison Green, gave no first page hits
Censored on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Interestingly, the search suggestions are still there!
Neil McKenna, The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde
Critically acclaimed biography
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0465044395/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562149&sr=1-9
Deranked by Amazon.com
John Amaechi, Man in the Middle
Autobiography of a gay former NBA player.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Middle-John-Amaechi/dp/1933060190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239564553&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Middle-John-Amaechi/dp/1933060190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239564553&sr=1-1
Sales ranks removed
Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
Biography of the gay right activist
http://www.amazon.com/Milk-Pictorial-History-Harvey/dp/1557048282/ref=pd_ sim_b_3
Stripped of rank at amazon.com
Dan Savage, The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
No rank listed, yet it has 126 reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Kid-Happened-Boyfriend-Decided-Pregnant/dp/0452281768
Stephen Fry: Moab is my Washpot
Memoir by British national treasure Stephen Fry
http://www.amazon.com/Moab-My-Washpot-Stephen-Fry/dp/1569472025/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239563712&sr=1-1
Deranked on Amazon.com
Carol Leigh, Unrepentant Whore: Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot
Primarily political, only three or so very mildly explicit scenes Sex Worker Rights political memoir, contains information about legal issues, police abuse and political organizing including much GLBT content. Amazon Ranking removed.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Whore-Collected-Scarlot-Harlot/dp/0867195843
Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla Alexander (eds), Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Primarily political and memoirs focusing in rights an working conditions of sex workers.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Work-Writings-Women-Industry/dp/1573440426
Ranking removed
(Other sex worker books seem to be affected as well)
SELF-HELP
Velvet Rage - self-help book for gay men
http://www.amazon.com/Velvet-Rage-Overcoming-Growing-Straight/dp/0738210617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239553616&sr=1-1 (Amazon.com)
The Church & The Homosexual
http://www.amazon.com/Church-Homosexual-John-J-McNeill/dp/0807079316/ref=
sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554146&sr=1-1
Taking a Chance on God: Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and Their
Lovers, Families, and Friends
http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Chance-God-Liberating-Theology/dp/0807079456/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554196&sr=1-4
Freedom, Glorious, Freedom
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Glorious-Spiritual-Fullness-EverybodyElse/dp/0807079375/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554196&sr=1-5
Gay America
http://www.amazon.com/Gay-America-Struggle-Linas-Alsenas/dp/0810994879/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554245&sr=1-2
When Your Spouse Comes Out
http://www.amazon.com/When-Your-Spouse-Comes-Out/dp/0789036290/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554351&sr=1-5
My Husband is Gay
http://www.amazon.com/My-Husband-Gay-Womans-Survival/dp/1580910890/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Outing Yourself
http://www.amazon.com/Outing-Yourself-Lesbian-Friends-Coworkers/dp/0684826178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554398&sr=1-1
The Way Out
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-Freedom-Matter-Closeted/dp/0757303927/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554398&sr=1-2
"Heather Has Two Mommies" has no sales rank.
http://www.amazon.com/Heather-Has-Two-Mommies-Anniversary/dp/1555835430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239555808&sr=1-1 (adult? O rly?)
Christopher Isherwood's Christopher and His Kind and Kate Bornstein's My Gender Workbook and Hello Cruel World are all missing their ranks as well.
Amazon has removed the rankings of all lesbian pregnancy/parenting guides:
- Rachel Pepper The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception through Birth, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
- Stephanie Brill The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth
- Harlyn Aizley (Editor) Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All
- Andrea Askowitz My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy
Kate Bornstein Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws
THIS IS A SUICIDE PREVENTION MANUAL FOR TEENAGERS. IT IS NOT EROTICA, IT'S ABOUT SAVING KIDS' LIVES.
The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Guide-Pregnancy-Lesbians-Pre-Conception/dp/157344216X/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559468&sr=1-25
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lesbian-Parenting-Book-Creating-Families/dp/1580050905/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559468&sr=1-29
Lesbian and Gay Psychology
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lesbian-Gay-Psychology-New-Perspectives/dp/1405102225/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559586&sr=1-40
Miriam Kaufmann
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Sex-Disability-Disabilities/dp/1573443042/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239551237&sr=1-6
Amazon.com - ranking lost
Jessica Valenti & Jaclyn Friedman, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Feminist book about issues of consent and fighting rape, has also been de-ranked
http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Means-Visions-Female-Without/dp/B001TL7C00/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561038&sr=8-2
The Kindle version is OK.)
Also not listed, although He's a Stud, She's a Slut... and The Purity Myth by Valenti are still okay.
Heather Corinna, S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College"
Guide to sexuality aimed at ages 16-22. And horrors, it's GLBT-friendly, witten by the founder of Scarleteen.com, a celebrated sex-ed site for young people.
http://www.amazon.com/S-E-X-All-You-Need-Know-Progressive-Sexuality/dp/1600940102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=books&qid=1239564840&sr=1-1
Deranked by amazon.com
Ruth Bell, Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships
Toni Weschler, Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body
Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Susie Bright, Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression
Audacia Ray, Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
Cathy Winks, The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written
Felice Newman, The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us
Nonfiction sex guides Blow Him and Going down there (oral sex guides) have removed rankings but The Complete Idiots Guide to Amazing Sex still has rankings.
Helen Boyd, My Husband Betty She's Not the Man I Married
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Lesbian-Sex-Book-Passionate/dp/1573440884/ref=ed_oe_p
Tom Shakespeare et al's "The Sexual Politics of Disability"
(sociology text book)
UNCATEGORIZED
http://www.amazon.com/Zami-Spelling-Crossing-Press-Feminist/dp/0895941228
http://www.amazon.de/Zami-Spelling-Crossing-Press-Feminist/dp/0895941228
(Sales rank removed)
http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Outlaw-Men-Women-Rest/dp/0679757015
http://www.amazon.de/Gender-Outlaw-Men-Women-Rest/dp/0679757015
(Sales rank removed)
http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-There-Life-Genders/dp/0767914295
http://www.amazon.de/Shes-Not-There-Life-Genders/dp/0767914295
(Sales rank removed)
http://www.amazon.com/Conundrum-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171896
(Sales rank removed)
Apparently even autobiographies about being trans constitute "adult material".
Jules Jones - proof there was a LGTB bestseller list (dated blog post with screen shot) http://julesjones.livejournal.com/209349.html (both UK and US sites)
Lesléa Newman, Out of the Closet and Nothing To Wear
Erotic content limited to some puns on the word "pussy".
Erin McHugh, the whole "The Portable Queer" series
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Portable+Queer&x=0&y=0
Katherine V. Forrest - all books had their ranking removed.
Amazon.de has indiscriminately (hah!) removed the rankings from any and all books listed as glbt in English Books (and only in English books; the German ones are still displayed with their rankings). Funnily enough, of the three different (English) editions of Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, only one is categorised as glbt; subsequently, the other two are still listed with their rankings while the "gay" one has been filtered. Further, Amazon.de claims this is a technical glitch.
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Bi-Voices-Bisexuals-Around/dp/096538814X/ref=sid_dp_dp
http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Attraction-Understanding-Martin-Weinberg/dp/0195098412/ref=pd_sim_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/Bi-America-Struggles-Invisible-Community/dp/1560234792/ref=pd_sim_b_3
http://www.amazon.com/Look-Both-Ways-Bisexual-Politics/dp/0374531080/ref=pd_sim_b_4
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-History-Studies-Susan-Stryker/dp/158005224X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Child-Handbook-Families-Professionals/dp/1573443182/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Homosexuality-Francis-Mondimore/dp/0801854407
http://www.amazon.com/Dude-Youre-Fag-Masculinity-Sexuality/dp/0520252306/ref=pd_sim_b_2
http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Transgender-Ethnography-David-Valentine/dp/0822338696/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/True-Selves-Understanding-Transsexualism-Professionals/dp/0787967025/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-10
http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-Man-Married-Transgender/dp/1580051936/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Testosterone-Files-Hormonal-Social-Transformation/dp/1580051731/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-8
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Out-Radical-Gender-Transformation/dp/0916397963/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-11
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Homosexuality-Francis-Mondimore/dp/0801854407
"Ranks for every shonen ai (GLBT) manga I tried are gone too."
Regarding amazon.co.jp: "Tried searching for a dozen or so books from the above list of various types, and in almost every case, the search page had the cover image replaced with a graphic indicating it was an adult item. If you click through you can see the actual cover art, but there is a note that it is an adult work. On the Japanese language version of the page, it says that adult materials will not be sold to anyone under 18. In both English and Japanese it says that the item cannot be shipped outside Japan."
A search for Kushiel's Scion reveals that the version published by Warner is an adult item.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Kushiels-Scion-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044661002X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1239569007&sr=1-1
The version published by Orbit is not.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Kushiels-Scion-Treasons-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/1841493619/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1239569007&sr=1-2
They removed Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books. My mind is reeling.
If you want to contact Amazon directly to protest and register your discontent with this decision that silences, and purges so many writers and books from Amazon's website, here is how you can contact them, and I strongly urge you to do this whether you be straighter than straight, LGBT, or someone that doesn't fall into any of those categories:
E-mail addresses:
connect-help@amazon.com
Other ways to get in touch with them:
http://clicheideas.com/amazon.htm
This information is publicly available on Amazon's website. This is not Mr. Bezos' private contact information.
Better yet, contact Jeffrey Bezos, who happens to be Amazon's CEO:
Jeffrey Bezos
1200 12th Avenue South
Seattle
Washington 98144-2734
United States
Phone: 206-266-1000
Fax: 206-622-2405
I'll be sending Mr. Bezos a fax, a letter via certified mail, AND an e-mail today.
There's also an online petition, but I have a feeling that Amazon doesn't give a damn about online petitions.
There are more than a few people on LJ who work on Amazon. I have to wonder how they feel about this and what they're doing. Personally, if I worked for Amazon, I'd be quitting right about now in protest.
Edits:
1. syringavulgaris reports that Amazon is claiming that this is all a "glitch." I've yet to see any links that confirm that reliably.
2. Over on brutal_honesty there's someone claiming that he/she is partially or wholly responsible for spamming Amazon with complaints about the above described content. I'm not linking to it because I suspect that the links in his post might take you to malware sites.
I found that graphic over on ontd_political. Please feel free to take and repost.
First, a few links describing what happened. Amazon decided within the last few days (still trying to find out exactly when) to remove all LGBT and erotica from its rankings. Thus far I haven't found an exhaustive list of what they've removed, and I suspect there won't be one, because it's apparently still evolving as Amazon pulls more books.
Jezebel.com's post.
The post from ontd_political.
The Los Angeles Times piece.
Dear Author's article.
A very informative post over on meta_writer.
Craig Seymour's been reporting on Amazon's homophobia for a while.
Here's the message that Amazon sent to someone querying about what happened:
In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.
Hence, if you have further questions, kindly write back to us.
Best regards,
Ashlyn D
Member Services
Amazon.com Advantage
Lest you think that this doesn't matter to you or that it'll only affect a small portion of literature, THEY REMOVED JAMES BALDWIN AND JEANETTE WINTERSON's books from their rankings. James Baldwin. Sit and contemplate that for a few moments and realize how atrociously bigoted that is. You want history books about the role of LGBT people in history? Biographies? Young adult books that may mention LGBT people or have them as characters? Well, you're shit out of luck, people. Self-help books? College guides for LGBT people looking for LGBT-friendly colleges? Books for straight people wanting to support LGBT friends or family as they come out? Parenting books? Nope. You're SOL.
The fact is that this move by Amazon can negatively impact the sales of any author that is on their hit list. Do you really want Amazon to lessen the possibility that someone who hasn't read James Baldwin might stumble across his work on Amazon, order his books, and proceed to read one of the most exquisite writing talents in all of American history? If so, get off my flist and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
If you go to Amazon right now and search "homosexuality," the top books you find are all about preventing, "healing," and attacking homosexuality. Here's what I found when I did the search at 7:50 AM PDT:
That means if you go on Amazon and search for books that are listed under the key word of "homosexuality," you won't find the plethora of books that are written by LGBT authors unless you already know their names. Think of what that means for someone just coming to terms with their gayness and/or anyone wanting to find new books by GLBT authors.
This is taken directly from the list that vashtan's posted on meta_writer. It compiles thus far a list of books that have been found to have been removed from Amazon's rankings. All credit goes to the people who compiled this list:
MASSIVE LIST OF BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN PURGED FROM AMAZON'S SALES RANKINGS AND CENSORED
Collection: Books that had their sales ranks removed:
FICTION
Out of a Top 100 Gay Novels List on Elisa Rolle's LJ almost all the books are "purged", including authors such as Jamie O'Neill, Edmund White, Andre Aciman.
Link: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/593110.html
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain
Stripped of sales rank on amazon.com, but not on amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/BROKEBACK-MOUNTAIN-ANNIE-PROULX/dp/2246699215ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562478&sr=1-3
Jeanette Winterson's OrangesAre Not The Only Fruit
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
None of which can be called "erotica" by any stretch of the imagination.
(the only "sex scene" in The Well of Loneliness consists in its entirety of the words "And that night they were not divided.")
Alex Beecroft: False Colours, m/m historical romance, just broken through and ranking in top 10 historical novels-- i.e. non-romance, non-gay-- and then it suddenly disappeared entirely from the rankings. The novel is NOT erotica, contains only one non-explicit sex scene, but the central premise features two male characters falling in love.
http://www.amazon.com/False-Colors-M-Romance/dp/0762436581
The Kindle version of False Colors has a sales rank but has had the 'an m/m romance' taken off its name!
http://www.amazon.com/False-Colors-ebook/dp/B0026A6C3Q
Censored on Amazon.com
Alex Beecroft, Captain's Surrender
heat level mild; about one page of sex scenes all told in a book 196 pages long
http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Surrender-Alex-Beecroft/dp/1602020892
Censored on Amazon.com
The Kindle version of Captain's Surrender has no sales rank either. http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Surrender/dp/B00140IURU
Erastes Transgressions - similar case to False Colours, screen cap here: http://erastes.livejournal.com/371921.html
Erastes Standish
Erastes Speak Its Name
Erastes Frost Fair
(on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk)
Storm Grant - Gym Dandy
Level of explicitness/genre: a RomCom with a heat level of 2 out of 5.
GLTB content?: boy meets boy
Censored on which amazon website: .com, .uk, and .ca*
Proof of sales rank: http://pics.livejournal.com/storm_grant/pic/0002ydd8/
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537
http://www.amazon.de/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537
Sales rank removed
Rita Mae Brown Rubyfruit Jungle
http://www.amazon.com/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/055327886X
http://www.amazon.de/Rubyfruit-Jungle-Rita-Mae-Brown/dp/055327886X
Sales rank removed
Sarah Waters Tipping The Velvet now has no sales rank in one of its editions ...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Virago-Sarah-Waters/dp/1860495249
http://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=pd_sim_b_2
http://www.amazon.de/Tipping-Velvet-Novel-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573227889/ref=
pd_sim_b_2
It still does in another edition:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Sarah-Waters/dp/1844080110
The only difference seems to be that this one doesn't have the word "lesbian" anywhere in its "Look for similar items by subject".
E M Forster - Maurice
http://www.amazon.com/Maurice-Novel-E-M-Forster/dp/0393310329/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550630&sr=1-1
(Amazon.com - "Heat level" - neglegible)
(Sales rank removed)
Charlie Cochrane: Lessons in Love
http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Love-Charlie-Cochrane/dp/1602021481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239547504&sr=1-1
(no sex in the book)
(Sales rank removed)
Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man
http://www.amazon.com/Single-Man-Christopher-Isherwood/dp/0816638624/
Gay protagonist. I don't recall any explicit sex.
(Sales rank removed)
Edmund White's The Beautiful Room Is Empty
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Room-Empty-Novel/dp/0679755403/
Haven't read, however, it's certainly critically acclaimed (as is A Single Man)
(Sales rank removed)
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story
Both of the Edmund White novels do contain explicit sex scenes, but they're far from not "erotica", and they're acclaimed as literary classics.
(Sales rank removed)
Andrew Holleran's Dancer From The Dance
http://www.amazon.com/Dancer-Dance-Novel-Andrew-Holleran/dp/0060937068/
Gay protagonist. Non-explicit, though much is implied. Harold Robbins is steamier and retains his sales rank.
(Sales rank removed)
JL Langley's Tin Star (Amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
James Buchanan: The Good Thief, Twice the Cowboy, Twice the Ride, Cheating Chance
(Only his print editions have had their sales rank stripped) Amazon.com
Screencap for Good Thief here: http://www.james-buchanan.com/GT.pdf
More proof: http://www.james-buchanan.com/amazonfail.pdf
R W Day A Strong and Sudden Thaw Iris Press edition - has a ranking, Kindle version of the Lethe edition has a ranking. The print version of the Lethe edition does not (http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Sudden-Thaw-R-Day/dp/1590210638/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239551741&sr=1-1)
When you search by title from the Amazon home page, the Lethe print edition doesn't even make the first page of results. In fact, the first hit is a book by another author with the same name as me, and the second is Ginn Hale's Wicked Gentlemen, which still has a ranking, btw.
Anne Brooke - Maloney's Law
- Gay crime fiction - 2 sex scenes, one brief.
- GLTB content - Yes
- Censored on which amazon website - amazon.us and amazon.uk
Amazon UK link - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maloneys-Law-Anne-Brooke/dp/1933720484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216456533&sr=8-1
Amazon US link - http://www.amazon.com/Maloneys-Law-Anne-Brooke/dp/1933720484/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215868106&sr=8-1
Both have had their ranking stripped. It's also very hard now to search directly for the book as you can't do just any combination of author/title into the search field. It has to be title OR author and not both. That's a change from last week ...
Krandall Kraus Love's Last Chance
Cannot be searched by on Amazon directly by title http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1239552371/ref=sr_gnr_aps?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=loves%20last%20chance
Could be googled and got this link
http://www.amazon.com/Loves-Last-Chance-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1555835058>the amazon listing.
You cannot even search for things by title.
Jane Davitt Wild Raspberries (m/m romance)
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Raspberries-Jane-Davitt/dp/1603703209/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239553045&sr=1-3
No sales ranks anymore (same author, Drawing Closer does
LJ post about sales rank: http://janedavitt.livejournal.com1065639.html
Shayla Kersten The Cost of Eternity
Erotic romance (Ellora's Cave), GLTB content
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Cost-Eternity-Shayla-Kersten/dp/1419956655/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0198097-5214063?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188657417&sr=1-1
Various authors Seduction (Black Lace anthology)
Women's erotica (some same sex encounters but mostly het)
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Various-Authors/dp/0352345101/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217641842&sr=1-3
Jackson, Chase, Kersten Masters of Desire
Eerotic romance (Kensington Aphrodisia)
No GLTB content
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Desire-Layla-Chase/dp/0758225490/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217641768&sr=1-6
According to the authors on the Kensington Aphrodisia group, all of the Aphro stories have had ranking removed. Aphro novels are erotic romance and some have GLBT content.
Mary Renault The Charioteer
http://www.amazon.com/Charioteer-Mary-Renault/dp/0375714189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554137&sr=1-1
Tamara Allen Whistling in the Dark
"Sweet romance" - all the sex is behind closed doors, apart from a kiss or two and some cuddling. It features two men falling in love.
Censored on all amazon websites
http://www.amazon.com/Whistling-Dark-Tamara-Allen/dp/1590210492/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229019320&sr=8-1
The Kindle version has never had a sales rank, as far as the author knows. The print version lost its sales rank on Friday morning.
George Bennett Fain Pandora's Box
http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Box-George-Bennett-Fain/dp/0615141358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554619&sr=1-1
No sales rank. Description contains the phrase "homosexual tones".
Whereas hir other book, This Darkest Hour, still has a sales rank, even though it's full of smut. Description contains the phrase "sexy gay novella". But it's out of print, so that might have anything to do with it.
Lee Rowan, all books in the print editions, Kindle versions seem to be there, but the Kindle editions are not in author's profile (affects Ransom, Winds of Change, Eye of the Storm, Sail Away, Walking Wounded, Speak Its Name).
They are all m/m romance, heat level 3-3.5 on a scale of 5
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A14XRHD2PWFW4D/ref=sv_ys_4
It also affects self-published authors:
Marquesate Her Majesty's Men
Explicit, military gay erotica, m/m
Censored on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Majestys-Men-Marquesate/dp/0955988004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239557697&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Her-Majestys-Men-Marquesate/dp/0955988004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239557739&sr=1-1
It has become impossible to find the book when searching generally. Search box now has to be set on "books"
Jenna Jones, Chiaroscuro, and Something Beautiful
m/m romance
http://www.amazon.com/Chiaroscuro-Jenna-Jones/dp/1603704132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556726&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Something-Beautiful-Jenna-Jones/dp/1603704116 /ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_img_in
Had ranks stripped
Angela Fiddler - Pulse
Explicit m/m GLBT content, Kindle version still online
Isabel Miller Patience and Sarah
Historical novel. Erotic content limited to the words "Where's my wet? Where's my melt?"
Fae Sutherland & Marguerite Labbe, Mr. Right Now
Explicit GLBT
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Right-Now-Rhianne-Aile/dp/0981508421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558793&sr=1-1
Fae Sutherland & Marguerite Labbe Bee Among The Clover
Explicit GLBT
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Bee-Among-Clover-Fae-Sutherland/dp/1607670356/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558793&sr=1-2
Julia Serano Whipping Girl
Non-fiction - about trans women and femininity. Not very explicit at all. Some description (for example, frank talk of anatomy), but overall, pretty tame.
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Whipping-Girl-Transsexual-Scapegoating-Femininity/dp/1580051545/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559105&sr=1-1
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, first trilogy has sales ranks (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar) but not the second trilogy (Kushiel's Scion, Kushiel's Justice, Kushiel's Mercy), mass-market paperback editions.
Mild side of explicit, definitely BDSM, maybe occasional GLBT pairings but mostly het.
Censored on Amazon.com
Links (first three just for reference):
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Dart-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0765342987/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Chosen-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0765345048/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Avatar-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0765347539/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-4
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Scion-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044661002X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-6
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Justice-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0446610143/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Mercy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044661016X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559225&sr=1-2
Gerri Hill, The Rainbow Cedar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-Cedar-Gerri-Hill/dp/1594931240/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559303&sr=1-12
Georgia Beers, Too Close to Touch
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Close-Touch-Georgia-Beers/dp/1933110473/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559303&sr=1-11
E. Lynn Harris, "I Say A Little Prayer"
Romance, on par with any other romance novel (Nora Roberts, etc.) Gay and straight relationships
http://www.amazon.com/I-Say-Little-Prayer-Novel/dp/0385512724/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4 -- hardcover, no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Say-Little-Prayer-Lynn-Harris/dp/1400077281/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_12 -- paperback, no ranking
Kindle Edition still ranked.
E. Lynn Harris, "Not A Day Goes By"
Romance, on par with any other romance novel (Nora Roberts, etc.) Gay and straight relationships
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Day-Goes-Lynn-Harris/dp/1400075785/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_10 -- paperback, no ranking
Hardcover, Kindle, and Large print still ranked
E. Lynn Harris, "Not A Day Goes By"
Romance, on par with any other romance novel (Nora Roberts, etc.) Gay and straight relationships
http://www.amazon.com/Any-Way-Wind-Blows-Novel/dp/0385721188/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_9 -- paperback, no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Any-Wind-Blows-Lynn-Harris/dp/0385495056/ref=ed_oe_h -- hardcover, no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Any-Wind-Blows-Lynn-Harris/dp/078625792X/ref=ed_oe_h -- large print, no ranking (but also out of print) Kindle edition still has a ranking.
This is particularly awful because E. Lynn Harris is an author with a special Amazon "store".
Quentin Crisp - most works seems to have befallen the same fate:
http://www.amazon.com/Stately-Homo-Celebration-Quentin-Crisp/dp/0593046773/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559828&sr=1-4
Censored on Amazon.com
Patricia Nell Warren, The Front Runner
Gay romance granddaddy of them all, published in 1974
Its sales ranks are stripped by Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Front-Runner-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109964/
Various, I Do: an anthology in support of marriage equality
Varying heat levels, some erotica. A charity anthology in support of the Lambda Legal Fund.
http://www.amazon.com/I-DO-Kris-Jacen/dp/1934531707
Perihan Magden, Two Girls
Not explicit at all - a tragic story about two teenage girls falling in love, although I don't recall the word 'lesbian' ever even being mentioned outright.
Censored at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de (the English edition; the German edition still has its sales rank)
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Girls-Perihan-Magden/dp/1852428996/
Marion Zimmer Bradly, The Catch Trap
A bare handful of not very explicit sex scenes in over almost 700 pages. What might be more of a problem is that one of the protagonists is rather young when the relationship starts. - gay relationhsip, gay rights issues.
Censored at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk. On amazon.de the sales rank has been removed for the English edition in http://www.amazon.de/Catch-Trap-Marion-Zimmer-Bradley/dp/0345315642 one instance, and left for two other editions, as well as the German one.) - http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Trap-Marion-Zimmer-Bradley/dp/0345315642
A.J. Mirag, Clippings
Explicit GLBT
Censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Clippings-J-Mirag/dp/0557013011/
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt
Classic lesbian novel
http://www.amazon.com/Price-Salt-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393325997/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239563211&sr=1-1
Chris Bridges, Giggling Into the Pillow
Collection of funny erotica, all or mostly het, very explicit
US Amazon deranked it
http://www.amazon.com/Giggling-Into-Pillow-Chris-Bridges/dp/0595254306/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239563093&sr=1-1
Interestingly, the hardcover edition is still ranked:
http://www.amazon.com/Giggling-Into-Pillow-Chris-Bridges/dp/0595651704/ref=ed_oe_h
Kiernan Kelly, Riding Heartbreak Road
http://www.amazon.com/Riding-Heartbreak-Road-Kiernan-Kelly/dp/1934166251
Kiernan Kelly, In Bear Country
http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Country-Kiernan-Kelly/dp/1603700072/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239549662&sr=1-2
Kiernan Kelly, Seti's Heart
http://www.amazon.com/Setis-Heart-Kiernan-Kelly/dp/1603702598/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239549876&sr=1-1
Kiernan Kelly, In Bear Country II: The Barbary Coast
http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Country-II-Barbary-Coast/dp/1603704027/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550489&sr=1-1
Kiernan Kelly, In Their Own Skins: Shifting Sands
http://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Sands-Their-Own-Skin/dp/1603705783/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550657&sr=1-1
All deranked by amazon.com
Ann Rice, Sleeping Beauty series
The Story of O
Best Lesbian Erotica books series
Jay Lygon, Chaos Magic, Love Runes
GLBT erotica
Third book in the trilogy, Personal Demons, still has a ranking.
Michael Thomas Ford's books
Steve Berman, Vintage (YA novel)
Berman (a YA novel)
Catherine Lundoff (ed), Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades
(lesbian ghost stories)
ALL of the books from the GLBT publisher Torquere Press have been deranked!
Some examples:
http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Sean-Michael/dp/1603705872/ref=pd_sim_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/Velvet-Glove-IV-Sean-Michael/dp/1603705473/ref=pd_sim_b_3
http://www.amazon.com/5-OClock-Bar-Chris-Owen/dp/160370549X/ref=pd_sim_b_5
Eden Bradley
Contemporary erotica and erotic romance (No GLBT content)
Censored on amazon US, UK (can't even get search results under my name), Canada, Germany
TITLES: The Dark Garden The Darker Side of Pleasure Exotica: Seven Days of Kama Sutra, Nine Days of Arabian Nights Hot Nights, Dark Desires (erotic romance anthology) Exclusive (erotic romance anthology) Surrender: Tales of Submission (erotica anthology) Forbidden Fruit Naughty Bits (erotica anthology) A 21st Century Courtesan Beyond Desire (erotica anthology)
Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies
censored at amazon.com
Lauren Dane, Taking Care of Business:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0352345020/ref=cm_pdp_arms_dp_6
Deranked at Amazon.com)
Patti O'Shea, In Twilight's Shadow
Paranormal Romance/one consummated love scene at the end of the book, no GLTB content
Censored on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Twilights-Shadow-Patti-OShea/dp/0765355809
Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love
Story about two high school boys who fall in love and then drift apart during college. No adult content.
http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Like-Being-Love-Novel/dp/0060595833/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239565997&sr=1-2
Dan Savage
http://www.amazon.com/Commitment-Love-Sex-Marriage-Family/dp/0452287634
http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Love-Straight-Americas-Columnist/dp/0452278155
Pregnant Boyfriend: Censored on Amazon.com/ca/co.uk
Cassidy Ryan, Sleeping with the Past
Censored on Amazon.com and .co.uk
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Past-Cassidy-Ryan/dp/1603704213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239567827&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleeping-Past-Cassidy-Ryan/dp/1603704213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239567973&sr=1-1
A search for Richard Stevenson, author of the Don Strachey mysteries, gives you only the Kindle versions of his books and one of the movies: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=richard+stevenson&x=0&y=0
Alexander Chee, EDINBURGH
(sales rankign removed; interestingly, it still shows up in "all departments" search results).
Justin Chin, BURDEN OF ASHES
(sales ranking removed, but does not show up in "all department" searches).
Justin Chin, HARMLESS MEDICINE
Katherine V Forrest, Curious Wine
(arguably one of the most famous lesbian novels):
http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Wine-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1555836615/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568187&sr=1-6
Katherine V Forrest, Daughters of a Coral Dawn
(and also its two sequels):
http://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Coral-Dawn-Katherine-Forrest/dp/1555836623/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568187&sr=1-7
Rank removed on amazon.co.uk and amazon.de
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curious-Wine-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1872642020/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568444&sr=8-6
Katherine V Forrest, All in the Seasoning
http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Seasoning-Katherine-V-Forrest/dp/1932859268/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568538&sr=1-2
(Ranking removed)
Liberty Square: A Kate Delafield mystery (and other Kate Delafield books--these are mystery novels and I believe them to contain little, if any, romantic/erotic content other than the fact that the main character is a lesbian):
http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Square-Kate-Delafield-Mystery/dp/0425176754/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568187&sr=1-8
Clare London: "The Gold Warrior" "Twisted Brand" "Sparks Fly"
Gay romance AND/OR gay erotica. They all contain explicit m/m sex scenes, but of course there's no way of identifying that for certain from the blurb.
All have lost their sales rankings in BOTH dot COM and CO UK.
- Author/title: Taboo Treats, Liz Andrews editor - Level of explicitness/genre VERY explicit BDSM Halloween erotica - GLTB content? Yes, at least 2 of the 6 stories - Censored on which amazon website Amazon US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Taboo Treats does not show in an All Departments search
- Author/title Flipped Fables, S A Clements editor - Level of explicitness/genre Explicit m/m anthology - GLTB content? yes, m/m - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Flipped Fables
- Author/title Angelia Sparrow, "Pushing the Boundaries of Reality" Kindle edition - Level of explicitness/genre erotic cyberpunk - GLTB content? no - Censored on which amazon website US, does show up in Kindle Store searches - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Pushing the Boundaries of Reality
- Author/title Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks, "Color of Magic/Color of Money" (kindle) - Level of explicitness/genre fantasy erotica - GLTB content? yes, m/m - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Color of Magic/Color of Money shows up in the Kindle store but not in All Departments
- Author/title Toybox: Sounds, edited M.Rode (kindle) - Level of explicitness/genre erotica - GLTB content? yes, m/m - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Sounds shows in a Books and Kindle search, but not a general one. Toyboxes for Oil, Rope and Collars are also missing on the general
- Author/title Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks, "Collared Hearts" - Level of explicitness/genre BDSM erotica - GLTB content? yes - Censored on which amazon website US - Link (maybe even a screencap)? Collared Hearts has problems with its listing and is not showing up on All Department searches, although it shows on Kindle Store and Books
John Cleland
sexually explicit, mostly het sex. usually classified as classic, at least one lesbian encounter
Censored on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Hill-Pleasure-Wordsworth-Wadsworth/dp/1840224177/ref=pd_cp_b_1?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1604596163&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1CKX37PZ9T7XQ5YP7PEX
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanny-Hill-Pleasure-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/1840224177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566020&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.ca/Penguin-Classics-Fanny-Memoirs-Pleasure/dp/0140432493/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566030&sr=1-1"
LAWRENCE SCHIMEL reports that all of his books have been stripped of their sales rankings. Author MICHAEL D. SNEDIKER reports the same.
Emma Holly, Fairyville
It's got straight and gay erotic romance, plus m/m/f menage
http://www.amazon.com/Fairyville-Berkley-Sensation-Emma-Holly/dp/0425224767/
There's a budget version of it that still shows up in searches, but not the 'real' version.
Laura Baumbach: A Bit of Rough, Out There in the Night, Details of the Hunt, Hostage, Blood Desires, Scared Stiff, Blood Claim, MEXICAN HEAT, The Lost Temple of Karttikeya, The Ties That Bind, Roughhousing, A Bite Before Christmas
Steamy, GLBT, Censored on amazon.com
All MLR Press books are de-ranked, too.
YOUNG ADULT
Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys (YA)
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Boys-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689857705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550221&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-Boys-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689857705/ref=pd_si
m_b_2
(Sales rank removed)
Alex Sanchez, Rainbow Road (YA)
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Road-Alex-Sanchez/dp/141691191X/ref=pd_sim_b_1_img
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-Road-Alex-Sanchez/dp/141691191X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556298&sr=1-1
(Sales rank removed)
Rainbow High (YA)
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-High-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689854781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239550483&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbow-High-Alex-Sanchez/dp/0689854781/ref=pd_sim_b_1
(Sales rank removed)
(None of Alex Sanchez's other books have lost their rankings though they all contain m/m content)
Mark Probst The Filly
http://www.amazon.ca/Filly-Mark-R-Probst/dp/0979777305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 &s=books&qid=1239547211&sr=8-1 (amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
None of the [YA] f/f books I checked had their rankings removed - this includes books by Julie Peters, Ellen Wittlinger and Nancy Garden, among others. Neither have David Levithan's or Brett Hartinger's or any of the other m/m novels I checked. Most of the novels I checked are mainstream teen fiction, that were well reviewed in library journals, as that is what I'm most familiar with.
Marion Dane Bauer Am I Blue
http://www.amazon.com/Am-I-Blue-Coming-Silence/dp/0064405877/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556580&sr=1-1>
Anthology by YA authors about 'growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends', has an age recommendation of 9-12 and has no ranking.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s249/riversbend/amiblue.jpg
NON-FICTION
The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students
http://www.amazon.com/Advocate-College-Guide-LGBT-Students/dp/155583857X/
No protagonist, but intended for LGBT college-bound students. Haven't read, but I expect is non-explicit.
(Sales rank removed)
Robert Adrich Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History (amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
Dr. Nathaniel Frank Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America has also been pulled from the rankings. A book on military policy - not exactly racy stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/Unfriendly-Fire-Undermines-Military-Weakens/dp/0312373481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554070&sr=1-1
Louis-Georges Tin (Editor), Marek Redburn (Translator): The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience (Paperback)
(Amazon.ca)
(Sales rank removed)
Different Loving (D/s), Threesomes (swinging), and Anapol's Polyamory are all lacking a rank. The third book is about as bland as bland can get, although the first is admittedly "spicy" (or, at least, frank).
However, lasciviously titled books like Become a Total Man Magnet: Make Every Man Fall in Love with You Instantly - Make Him Chase You Down Desperately and Beg for Attention and The Manual: A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date, and Mate--and What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top have rankings.
BDSM nonfiction
SM 101 has no ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/101-Realistic-Introduction-Jay-Wiseman/dp/0963976389/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556468&sr=1-1
The New Bottoming Book - no ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Bottoming-Book-Janet-Hardy/dp/1890159352/ref=pd_cp_b_3?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=096397638 9&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0BD587CY97NNHM9DFDQP
The Loving Dominant - no ranking
http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Dominant-John-Warren/dp/1890159727/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Three in Love (historic examples of menage a trois, not a how-to) - no ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Love-Menages-Ancient-Modern/dp/0595008070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556612&sr=1-1
Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors
Non-fiction. No erotic content.
Leslie Feinberg Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Non-fiction. No erotic content unless you find impassioned arguments for socialised medicine arousing.
Kate Bornstein My Gender Workbook
Non-fiction. Definitely not erotica, but does mention sometimes that there is such a thing as sex.
The Dictionary of Homophobia
http://www.amazon.co.uk/DICTIONARY-HOMOPHOBIA-History-Lesbian-Experience/dp/1551522292/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556548&sr=1-2
Challenging Homophobia: Teaching About Sexual Diversity
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Challenging-Homophobia-Teaching-Sexual-Diversity/dp/1858564131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239556548&sr=1-1
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Who-Lesbian-History-Mid-Twentieth/dp/0415159830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558561&sr=1-1
Strangers: Homosexuality in the Nineteenth Century
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strangers-Homosexuality-Nineteenth-Graham-Robb/dp/0330482246/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Sex, Love and Homophobia: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Love-Homophobia-Bisexual-Transgender/dp/1873328575/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239558893&sr=1-4
Rictor Norton, Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830
Prof. B.R. Burg, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Prof. B.R. Burg, Boys at Sea: Sodomy, Indecency, and Courts Martial in Nelson's Navy
Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity
Vito Russo, Celluloid Closet
http://www.amazon.com/Celluloid-Closet-Homosexuality-Movies/dp/0060961325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239560084&sr=1-1
The DVD still comes up fine, incidentally.
Randy Shilts / The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk Biography
http://www.amazon.com/Mayor-Castro-Street-Times-Harvey/dp/0312560850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239560212&sr=1-1 -- paperback, no ranking
Randy Shilts / Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military
http://www.amazon.com/Conduct-Unbecoming-Gays-Lesbians-Military/dp/0312342640/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239560212&sr=1-4 -- paperback, no ranking
Randy Shilts is also the author of "And The Band Played On" -- still does have its sales ranking.
Travel guides e.g.:
http://www.amazon.com/Damron-Womens-Traveller/dp/0929435672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559742&sr=1-1
Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, Kate Bornstein, Pomosexuals: challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality
http://www.amazon.com/PoMoSexuals-Challenging-Assumptions-Gender-Sexuality/dp/1573440744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562607&sr=1-1
Sales Rank Stripped by Amazon.com
William N. Eskridge Jr., Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
important nonfiction book about American law and gay rights, no adult content anywhere
http://www.amazon.com/Gaylaw-Challenging-William-Eskridge-Jr/dp/0674008049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562681&sr=1-1
Paul Ruditis, Queer as Folks
(Behind the scenes book on QaF US)
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-as-Folk-Paul-Ruditis/dp/0743476360/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239565633&sr=1-1
Cache at google, from April 4th:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:osiXoaWLy3cJ:www.amazon.com/Queer-as-Folk-Paul-Ruditis/dp/0743476360queer+as+folk+the+book&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Bruce Bagemhil, Biological Exuberance
(seminal text on sexuality in animals)
http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Exuberance-Homosexuality-Diversity-Stonewall/dp/031225377X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239568033&sr=1-1
Psy.D. Paul Joannides, The Guide to Getting It On, 6th Edition
Self-Help, Guide book, textbook GLTB mentioned positively, mainly heterofocused
censored on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Getting-Psy-D-Paul-Joannides/dp/1885535333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239565932&sr=1-1
Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Hedgwick
http://www.amazon.com/Epistemology-Closet-Eve-Kosofsky-Sedgwick/dp/0520254066/
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures) by Judith Halberstam
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Time-Place-Transgender-Subcultural/dp/0814735851/
Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Theory-Introduction-Annamarie-Jagose/dp/0814742343/
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life by Michael Warner
http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Normal-Politics-Ethics-Queer/dp/0674004418/
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q) by Lee Edelman
http://www.amazon.com/No-Future-Queer-Theory-Death/dp/0822333694/
Gay TV and Straight America by Ron Becker
http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Straight-America-Ron-Becker/dp/0813536898/
The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV by Stephen Tropiano
http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Time-Closet-History-Lesbians/dp/1557835578/
Up From Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America by Larry Gross (yeah, ironic, I know)
http://www.amazon.com/Up-Invisibility-Lesbians-Media-America/dp/0231119534/
Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television, 1930s to the Present by Steven Capsuto
http://www.amazon.com/Alternate-Channels-Uncensored-Lesbian-Television/dp/0345412435/
All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America by Suzanna Danuta Walters
http://www.amazon.com/All-Rage-Story-Visibility-America/dp/0226872327/
Queer Cinema, the Film Reader by Harry Benshoff
http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Cinema-Reader-Focus-Routledge-Readers/dp/0415319870/
True Selves - written for therapists/social workers
http://www.amazon.com/True-Selves-Understanding-Transsexualism-Professionals/dp/0787967025/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Transgender History.. is a history book
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-History-Studies-Susan-Stryker/dp/158005224X/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Nobody Passes - an anthology about passing, including racial/gender/class passing...
http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Passes-Rejecting-Gender-Conformity/dp/1580051847/ref=pd_sim_b_7
Becoming a Visible Man - memoir by activist Jamison Green:
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Visible-Man-Jamison-Green/dp/082651457X/ref=pd_sim_b_8
The Transgender Studies Reader: transgender theory:
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Reader-Susan-Stryker/dp/041594709X/ref=pd_sim_b_9
Transgender Rights - social justice, dicrimination issues, legislation.
So not erotic:
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Rights-Paisley-Currah/dp/0816643121/ref=pd_sim_b_11
Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America WesleyanUPr) by Cantor, Cantor, et al, has been deranked
BIOGRAPHIES
John Barrowman Anything Goes, Biography
Paperback Edition has a ranking ttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Goes-Autobiography-John-Barrowman/dp/1843173336/ref=pd_sim_m_h__3
But the hardcover edition doesn't:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Goes-John-Barrowman-Carole/dp/1843172895/ref=ed_oe_h
They also seem to have stripped the title search result with another book co-written by Krandal Krauss, It's Never About What It's About. This book is a memoir on coping with life and death in the wake of the AIDS virus. It is a reflection on spirituality, *not* an adult work.
Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaw
Autobiography. Not erotica at all.
V. G. Lee, Diary of a Provincial Lesbian
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-Provincial-Lesbian-V-G-Lee/dp/0906500869/ref=sr_1_59?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559689&sr=1-59
Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell, eds., GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
Non-fiction, personal biographies and essays,
I don't recall much sexual content.
http://www.amazon.com/GenderQueer-Voices-Beyond-Sexual-Binary/dp/1555837301/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561631&sr=1-1"
Mattilda a.k.a. Matthew Bernstein Sycamore (ed.), Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
Non-fiction, personal biographies and essays. Don't remember much sexual content.
http://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Passes-Rejecting-Gender-Conformity/dp/1580051847/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561631&sr=1-2"
Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz, What Becomes You
Non-fiction, autobiography. Little sexual content.
http://www.amazon.com/What-Becomes-You-American-Lives/dp0803216424ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561812&sr=1-1
Jamison Green, Becoming a Visible Man
Classic FTM memoir
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Visible-Man-Jamison-Green/dp/082651457X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561497&sr=1-1
Not only has no sales rank, but an exact title search and a search for the author, Jamison Green, gave no first page hits
Censored on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Interestingly, the search suggestions are still there!
Neil McKenna, The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde
Critically acclaimed biography
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0465044395/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239562149&sr=1-9
Deranked by Amazon.com
John Amaechi, Man in the Middle
Autobiography of a gay former NBA player.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Middle-John-Amaechi/dp/1933060190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239564553&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Middle-John-Amaechi/dp/1933060190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239564553&sr=1-1
Sales ranks removed
Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
Biography of the gay right activist
http://www.amazon.com/Milk-Pictorial-History-Harvey/dp/1557048282/ref=pd_ sim_b_3
Stripped of rank at amazon.com
Dan Savage, The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
No rank listed, yet it has 126 reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Kid-Happened-Boyfriend-Decided-Pregnant/dp/0452281768
Stephen Fry: Moab is my Washpot
Memoir by British national treasure Stephen Fry
http://www.amazon.com/Moab-My-Washpot-Stephen-Fry/dp/1569472025/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239563712&sr=1-1
Deranked on Amazon.com
Carol Leigh, Unrepentant Whore: Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot
Primarily political, only three or so very mildly explicit scenes Sex Worker Rights political memoir, contains information about legal issues, police abuse and political organizing including much GLBT content. Amazon Ranking removed.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Whore-Collected-Scarlot-Harlot/dp/0867195843
Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla Alexander (eds), Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Primarily political and memoirs focusing in rights an working conditions of sex workers.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Work-Writings-Women-Industry/dp/1573440426
Ranking removed
(Other sex worker books seem to be affected as well)
SELF-HELP
Velvet Rage - self-help book for gay men
http://www.amazon.com/Velvet-Rage-Overcoming-Growing-Straight/dp/0738210617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239553616&sr=1-1 (Amazon.com)
The Church & The Homosexual
http://www.amazon.com/Church-Homosexual-John-J-McNeill/dp/0807079316/ref=
sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554146&sr=1-1
Taking a Chance on God: Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and Their
Lovers, Families, and Friends
http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Chance-God-Liberating-Theology/dp/0807079456/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554196&sr=1-4
Freedom, Glorious, Freedom
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Glorious-Spiritual-Fullness-EverybodyElse/dp/0807079375/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554196&sr=1-5
Gay America
http://www.amazon.com/Gay-America-Struggle-Linas-Alsenas/dp/0810994879/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554245&sr=1-2
When Your Spouse Comes Out
http://www.amazon.com/When-Your-Spouse-Comes-Out/dp/0789036290/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554351&sr=1-5
My Husband is Gay
http://www.amazon.com/My-Husband-Gay-Womans-Survival/dp/1580910890/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Outing Yourself
http://www.amazon.com/Outing-Yourself-Lesbian-Friends-Coworkers/dp/0684826178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554398&sr=1-1
The Way Out
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-Freedom-Matter-Closeted/dp/0757303927/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239554398&sr=1-2
"Heather Has Two Mommies" has no sales rank.
http://www.amazon.com/Heather-Has-Two-Mommies-Anniversary/dp/1555835430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239555808&sr=1-1 (adult? O rly?)
Christopher Isherwood's Christopher and His Kind and Kate Bornstein's My Gender Workbook and Hello Cruel World are all missing their ranks as well.
Amazon has removed the rankings of all lesbian pregnancy/parenting guides:
- Rachel Pepper The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception through Birth, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
- Stephanie Brill The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth
- Harlyn Aizley (Editor) Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All
- Andrea Askowitz My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy
Kate Bornstein Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws
THIS IS A SUICIDE PREVENTION MANUAL FOR TEENAGERS. IT IS NOT EROTICA, IT'S ABOUT SAVING KIDS' LIVES.
The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Guide-Pregnancy-Lesbians-Pre-Conception/dp/157344216X/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559468&sr=1-25
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lesbian-Parenting-Book-Creating-Families/dp/1580050905/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559468&sr=1-29
Lesbian and Gay Psychology
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lesbian-Gay-Psychology-New-Perspectives/dp/1405102225/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239559586&sr=1-40
Miriam Kaufmann
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Sex-Disability-Disabilities/dp/1573443042/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239551237&sr=1-6
Amazon.com - ranking lost
Jessica Valenti & Jaclyn Friedman, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Feminist book about issues of consent and fighting rape, has also been de-ranked
http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Means-Visions-Female-Without/dp/B001TL7C00/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239561038&sr=8-2
The Kindle version is OK.)
Also not listed, although He's a Stud, She's a Slut... and The Purity Myth by Valenti are still okay.
Heather Corinna, S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College"
Guide to sexuality aimed at ages 16-22. And horrors, it's GLBT-friendly, witten by the founder of Scarleteen.com, a celebrated sex-ed site for young people.
http://www.amazon.com/S-E-X-All-You-Need-Know-Progressive-Sexuality/dp/1600940102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=books&qid=1239564840&sr=1-1
Deranked by amazon.com
Ruth Bell, Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships
Toni Weschler, Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body
Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Susie Bright, Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression
Audacia Ray, Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
Cathy Winks, The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written
Felice Newman, The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us
Nonfiction sex guides Blow Him and Going down there (oral sex guides) have removed rankings but The Complete Idiots Guide to Amazing Sex still has rankings.
Helen Boyd, My Husband Betty She's Not the Man I Married
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Lesbian-Sex-Book-Passionate/dp/1573440884/ref=ed_oe_p
Tom Shakespeare et al's "The Sexual Politics of Disability"
(sociology text book)
UNCATEGORIZED
http://www.amazon.com/Zami-Spelling-Crossing-Press-Feminist/dp/0895941228
http://www.amazon.de/Zami-Spelling-Crossing-Press-Feminist/dp/0895941228
(Sales rank removed)
http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Outlaw-Men-Women-Rest/dp/0679757015
http://www.amazon.de/Gender-Outlaw-Men-Women-Rest/dp/0679757015
(Sales rank removed)
http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-There-Life-Genders/dp/0767914295
http://www.amazon.de/Shes-Not-There-Life-Genders/dp/0767914295
(Sales rank removed)
http://www.amazon.com/Conundrum-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171896
(Sales rank removed)
Apparently even autobiographies about being trans constitute "adult material".
Jules Jones - proof there was a LGTB bestseller list (dated blog post with screen shot) http://julesjones.livejournal.com/209349.html (both UK and US sites)
Lesléa Newman, Out of the Closet and Nothing To Wear
Erotic content limited to some puns on the word "pussy".
Erin McHugh, the whole "The Portable Queer" series
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Portable+Queer&x=0&y=0
Katherine V. Forrest - all books had their ranking removed.
Amazon.de has indiscriminately (hah!) removed the rankings from any and all books listed as glbt in English Books (and only in English books; the German ones are still displayed with their rankings). Funnily enough, of the three different (English) editions of Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, only one is categorised as glbt; subsequently, the other two are still listed with their rankings while the "gay" one has been filtered. Further, Amazon.de claims this is a technical glitch.
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Bi-Voices-Bisexuals-Around/dp/096538814X/ref=sid_dp_dp
http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Attraction-Understanding-Martin-Weinberg/dp/0195098412/ref=pd_sim_b_1
http://www.amazon.com/Bi-America-Struggles-Invisible-Community/dp/1560234792/ref=pd_sim_b_3
http://www.amazon.com/Look-Both-Ways-Bisexual-Politics/dp/0374531080/ref=pd_sim_b_4
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-History-Studies-Susan-Stryker/dp/158005224X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Child-Handbook-Families-Professionals/dp/1573443182/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Homosexuality-Francis-Mondimore/dp/0801854407
http://www.amazon.com/Dude-Youre-Fag-Masculinity-Sexuality/dp/0520252306/ref=pd_sim_b_2
http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Transgender-Ethnography-David-Valentine/dp/0822338696/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/True-Selves-Understanding-Transsexualism-Professionals/dp/0787967025/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-10
http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-Man-Married-Transgender/dp/1580051936/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Testosterone-Files-Hormonal-Social-Transformation/dp/1580051731/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-8
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Out-Radical-Gender-Transformation/dp/0916397963/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239566461&sr=1-11
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Homosexuality-Francis-Mondimore/dp/0801854407
"Ranks for every shonen ai (GLBT) manga I tried are gone too."
Regarding amazon.co.jp: "Tried searching for a dozen or so books from the above list of various types, and in almost every case, the search page had the cover image replaced with a graphic indicating it was an adult item. If you click through you can see the actual cover art, but there is a note that it is an adult work. On the Japanese language version of the page, it says that adult materials will not be sold to anyone under 18. In both English and Japanese it says that the item cannot be shipped outside Japan."
A search for Kushiel's Scion reveals that the version published by Warner is an adult item.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Kushiels-Scion-Legacy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044661002X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1239569007&sr=1-1
The version published by Orbit is not.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Kushiels-Scion-Treasons-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/1841493619/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1239569007&sr=1-2
They removed Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books. My mind is reeling.
If you want to contact Amazon directly to protest and register your discontent with this decision that silences, and purges so many writers and books from Amazon's website, here is how you can contact them, and I strongly urge you to do this whether you be straighter than straight, LGBT, or someone that doesn't fall into any of those categories:
E-mail addresses:
connect-help@amazon.com
Other ways to get in touch with them:
http://clicheideas.com/amazon.htm
This information is publicly available on Amazon's website. This is not Mr. Bezos' private contact information.
Better yet, contact Jeffrey Bezos, who happens to be Amazon's CEO:
Jeffrey Bezos
1200 12th Avenue South
Seattle
Washington 98144-2734
United States
Phone: 206-266-1000
Fax: 206-622-2405
I'll be sending Mr. Bezos a fax, a letter via certified mail, AND an e-mail today.
There's also an online petition, but I have a feeling that Amazon doesn't give a damn about online petitions.
There are more than a few people on LJ who work on Amazon. I have to wonder how they feel about this and what they're doing. Personally, if I worked for Amazon, I'd be quitting right about now in protest.
Edits:
1. syringavulgaris reports that Amazon is claiming that this is all a "glitch." I've yet to see any links that confirm that reliably.
2. Over on brutal_honesty there's someone claiming that he/she is partially or wholly responsible for spamming Amazon with complaints about the above described content. I'm not linking to it because I suspect that the links in his post might take you to malware sites.